VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

Post by bigyabai » Sat, May 02, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC

ExoticPearTree wrote: post #157

janice1999 wrote: post #69

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They invested billions. They're scared.

> They invested billions. They're scared. They could have shipped a good product with all those billions they spent in reinventing Clippy. I have this feeling that their bet was that all the Microsoft shops will jump on Copilot without looking at alternatives, so they did not really have to make it as good as their competition.

Post by rsynnott » Sat, May 02, 2026, 10:18 PM UTC

ExoticPearTree wrote: post #157

janice1999 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They invested billions. They're scared.

> They invested billions. They're scared. They could have shipped a good product with all those billions they spent in reinventing Clippy. I have this feeling that their bet was that all the Microsoft shops will jump on Copilot without looking at alternatives, so they did not really have to make it as good as their competition.

Post by rsynnott » Sat, May 02, 2026, 10:19 PM UTC

buzzerbetrayed wrote: post #77

rsynnott wrote: post #26

One fascinating thing about the whole AI phenomenon is how incredibly hostile it is to _standards_. Whether something works properly, or is ethical, or is true, no longer matters at all; all that matters is "pls use our AI". Microsoft spent literal decades rehabilitating their reputation. And then set fire to the whole thing in an offering to their robot gods. And it's not just them. There was a time that Google care…

> There was a time that Google cared deeply about UX Have we been using the same Google?

Post by ExoticPearTree » Sat, May 02, 2026, 10:20 PM UTC

PyWoody wrote: post #122

grebc wrote: post #104

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5 years ago it was blockchain & NFT’s. Same hypers just moved to different technology.

All of the "carbon credit" guys I know are now all in on AI with zero sense of self awareness.

Post by gopher_space » Sat, May 02, 2026, 10:20 PM UTC

650 wrote: post #138

mister_mort wrote: post #41

This is pumping someone's metrics up inside of Microsoft, somewhere . The question is - will their boss revert it or encourage it when they discover the source of the stats being juiced?

A Principal Software Engineer at Microslop merged this - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmitriy-vasyura-9191611/ This is the author of the MR - https://github.com/cwebster-99 - A Product Manager at Microslop I've routinely spoken on the uselessness, and oftentimes detriment of product managers in tech. The dearth of leadership driving for vanity metrics like PMs writing code doesn't help either.